Imagine that future civilisations are looking for evidence of us. Digital human life. And they find nothing. No Buzzfeed. No Slack. No GitHub. Nothing. That’s actually a distinct possibility as the ...

Move over tape and optical. Microsoft is working with a genetics startup to test the feasibility of creating a synthetic DNA-based storage system that can archive zettabyte-scale data. Microsoft will ...

The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage. Read now The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come ...

As more and more data is created, engineers are busy searching for ways to maximize the amount of information that can be stored per square foot, so that we don’t wind up filling every last inch of ...

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years. Image: iStockphoto/Svisio Not all of the nine zettabytes of data ...

A few years ago, Harvard professor and bio-engineering rockstar George Church was a guest on The Colbert Report. As many of the talk show's guests did, he presented host Stephen Colbert with a copy of ...

DNA, on the other hand, can store data "in a space that's orders of magnitude smaller than datacenters," but we need to figure out how to automate the data-to-DNA process and to do so cheaply. A team ...

Microsoft is among the companies dabbling in DNA to store data, a sci-fi prompt that gets very exciting very quickly. A tech startup called Twist Bioscience reports that it has sold 10 million custom ...

Microsoft just made history as the company created a significant breakthrough in using artificial DNA to store data and information. The company operated with the University of Washington's Molecular ...

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Video“Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about management restructuring, 200MB of data being ...